British Government and People are sounding like their American counterparts.
The shit doesn’t fall far from the ass
i fucking hate the “apple doesn’t fall far from the tree” because fuits are meant to be eaten and spread far from the tree.
your version actually solves that problem and is in any sense, a better metaphor.
I’m keeping it and not giving it back
Mr. Lahey?
Shitbirds of a feather, Randers.
The British are the Americans of Europe.
The British came to the new world and never left, they just decided to change their name over here. It’s The British on both sides, just different flavors.
And of course all the assholes that followed the British.
I learned it watching you, Dad!
It’s deadass 7x more restrictive in England so far, they just fly under the radar.
And the liberals or Center Left are in charge now? bonkers…
Yeah, no… We can and do protest. The next massive nation-wide one is in two and a half weeks.
That’s not a coincidence.
I would just like to add that the french people don’t actually have grenade launchers on hand, since they are not sold in supermarkets here.
So we just march, shout, sing, hold signs, and get tear-gassed at some point. Admittedly we’re usually in the tens of thousands in medium sized cities and we sometimes burn a few cars and trash cans for good measure.
The last large protest was on September 18. and had between 500k and 1.1M protesters, according to the police and the protesters respectively.
I guess that’s why France is doing so well recently.
I like France because the people seem to be doing well most the time and the politicians seem to be doing poorly most the time. Quite refreshing.
I’ve been there and people are not doing well. I think both people and politicians are doing quite bad. Protests look fun on TV but when you oppose everything without an idea how to actually fix things it just stops any progress.
People are not doing well, sure, because only the rich are doing well (same as all over the world), but we’re doing better than most other people.
Not really. France is having a deficit crisis, which led to the collapse of the general assembly five times, leading to five different prime ministers being appointed, and yet the current government still refuse to raise taxes on the rich if they want to cover the deficit. All this government ineptitude is pushing the far right closer and closer to the cusp of power.
Dude it was obvious sarcasm.
Maybe you’re a Brit for not reading everything as sarcasm.
Are the right wingers in France for taxing the rich?
Ofc not. Right wing IS the party of the rich. Knowingly or not.
Funny you asked because I haven’t heard them advocate for it. What the right in France does is oppose any budget cuts, but blame the immigrants for social and financial woes. Opposing the budget cuts is where the left and right actually agree on, except for the migrant part, of course. But the problem with the French left is the typical infighting, so they can’t form a united front against the centrist neoliberals and right.
On the one hand, these strikes have had a direct effect on the national debt, as the country wasn’t able to increase pension age or cut benefits. On the other hand, it might lead to the government taxing the wealthy more and stopping the endless asset hoarding by the rich, which prices out everyone else. If France taxes the rich, they might be able to persuade the rest of the European nations to do the same. Then it might become effective for once.
so much cheese?
It’s worth pointing out that the Axis weren’t the ones putting up “Keep Calm and Carry On” posters.
USA government : Allows prices to raise because of greed.
USA citizens: Does a mass shooting at an elementary school.
Thoughts and prayers, Ya’ll.
Devolution: Can’t enjoy a single unrelated thread without bringing up the USA.
Ragebrain is real, y’all.
Guy I’m American and I mentioned it because I wish the US had the kinda response the French have.
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Genders? What poppycock. It was obviously immigrants, or Europe.
it is not always women’s fault. sometimes it is the migrant’s fault. /s
*immigrants
Bloody boat people!!! 🏴 😠 🇬🇧
Why did the French accent only last about halfway through the first sentence?
They need a constant supply of stinky cheese to maintain it.
Can I see the German take
No you may not, the last time the Germans tried to take there were two world wars and millions died
Sure: we’d protest the measures, but the protest was not approved.
Not approved because there’s no police available to monitor the protest since they’re all busy protecting the Concerned Citizens March one street over from little old ladies.
DIN-compatible protest standards were accidentally faxed to the wrong number so the protest administrators never received them.
I’m sure a strongly worded letter to the crown will fix all of it. You know how much Brits love their royal family.
Muricans: hell yeah, that’ll show the damn libs USA USA USA
One of these days I’ll open the comments on a thread like this. And I’ll be greeted with people who actually know what they’re talking about.
And not Americans trying to yankplain.
Well, I say! I shall complain in the strongest possible terms. “Dear Points of View, why oh why oh why…”
